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Chin Swee Caves Temple, Genting Highlands · February 2024

Looking Up at Chin Swee

Chin Swee Caves Temple sits high up in the Genting Highlands. Everything there is colour and curves, so I spent most of my time looking up. These went up on the page just before Chinese New Year.

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  1. A red and gold painted temple gable with dragons on the ridge against a blue cloudy sky01
  2. A tall red pagoda with a golden spire against blue sky and clouds02
  3. The curled tip of a temple roof ending in a small dragon, almost the whole frame filled with bright sky03
A red and gold painted temple gable with dragons on the ridge against a blue cloudy sky

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A Roof Full of Stories

Red, gold, turquoise, and dragons running along the top. Every part of this roof has something painted on it.

I cut the building off at the bottom and gave half the frame to the sky, so the roof looks like it’s floating on the clouds.

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A tall red pagoda with a golden spire against blue sky and clouds

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The Pagoda

Floor after floor, all the way up to a golden tip. I put it right in the middle and kept the frame tall.

The sky behind it is all moving cloud, and the pagoda is the one still thing in the picture.

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The curled tip of a temple roof ending in a small dragon, almost the whole frame filled with bright sky

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Reaching for the Light

The last one is almost all sky. Only the corner of one roof comes into the frame, ending in a little dragon that seems to reach up toward the light.

It’s the smallest detail of the three, and maybe the simplest way to say how the whole place felt.

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